Boxing’s heavyweight division is in the rudest of health as we move deeper in 2025, and we have a definitive take on the current landscape in the fight game’s marquee weight class.
They call the title of world heavyweight champion the biggest prize in all of sports, and with fighters sometimes earning upwards of £50million for one fight, it certainly still delivers.
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The title has been diluted somewhat in recent years by the fact there are about seven titles actually up for grabs in the heavyweight division alone, but we have you covered with the latest state of play. Here are the rankings from every key body on July 29, 2025.
Heavyweight Rankings – May 2025
There are four major sanctioning bodies, plus Ring magazine. They all have titles, and rankings – and here they are:
World Boxing Council (WBC)
Oleksandr Usyk (24-0) is the current king after defending successfully with a Wembley demolition job on Daniel Dubois:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Interim | Agit Kabayel | GER |
| 1 | Lawrence Okolie | GBR |
| 2 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 3 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 4 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 5 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 6 | Frank Sanchez | CUB |
| 7 | Bakhodir Jalolov | UZB |
| 8 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 9 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
| 10 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 11 | Deontay Wilder | USA |
| 12 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 13 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 14 | Justis Huni | AUS |
| 15 | Guido Vianello | ITA |
World Boxing Association (WBA)
Usyk again holds the belt here, retaining it vs Dubois on July 19 at Wembley:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Super Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Regular Champion | Kubrat Pulev | BUL |
| Interim Champion | Fabio Wardley | GBR |
| 1 | Michael Hunter | USA |
| 2 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 3 | Jarrell Miller | USA |
| 4 | Lenier Pero | CUB |
| 5 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 6 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 7 | Deontae Pettigrew | USA |
| 8 | Nelson Hysa | ALB |
| 9 | David Allen | GBR |
| 10 | Mahmoud Charr | GER |
| 11 | Murat Gassiev | ARM |
| 12 | Justis Huni | AUS |
| 13 | Dainier Pero | CUB |
| 14 | Yoandy Toirac | CUB |
| 15 | Joseph Goodall | AUS |
International Boxing Federation (IBF)
Usyk is now the IBF champion after taking it from Dubois in that unification showdown in London:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| 1 | Not Rated | – |
| 2 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 3 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 4 | Frank Sanchez | CUB |
| 5 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 6 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 7 | Michael Hunter | USA |
| 8 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
| 9 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 10 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 11 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 12 | Bakhodir Jalolov | UZB |
| 13 | Peter Kadiru | GER |
| 14 | Guido Vianello | ITA |
| 15 | Lawrence Okolie | GBR |
World Boxing Organisation (WBO)
Usyk holds the WBO belt, and again his latest defence was that peerless performance vs Dubois at Wembley:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| Interim | Joseph Parker | NZL |
| 1 | Moses Itauma | GBR |
| 2 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 3 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 4 | Lawrence Okolie | GBR |
| 5 | Daniel Dubois | GBR |
| 6 | Jared Anderson | USA |
| 7 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 8 | Dereck Chisora | GBR |
| 9 | David Adeleye | GBR |
| 10 | Nelson Hysa | ALB |
| 11 | Bakhodir Jalolov | ALB |
| 12 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 13 | Richard Torrez Jr | USA |
| 14 | Vladyslav Sirenko | UKR |
| 15 | Johnny Fisher | GBR |
Ring Magazine
Usyk is the Ring magazine champion and he retained the hallowed belt by defeating Dubois:
| Rank | Boxer | Country |
| Champion | Oleksandr Usyk | UKR |
| 1 | Tyson Fury | GBR |
| 2 | Daniel Dubois | GBR |
| 3 | Joseph Parker | NZL |
| 4 | Agit Kabayel | GER |
| 5 | Anthony Joshua | GBR |
| 6 | Filip Hrgovic | HRV |
| 7 | Zhilei Zhang | CHN |
| 8 | Martin Bakole | COD |
| 9 | Efe Ajagba | NGA |
| 10 | Fabio Wardley | GBR |
Who is the lineal champion?
The lineal world heavyweight champion is ‘the man who beat the man’. It is currently Oleksandr Usyk – he won the mythical title by beating Fury in their first fight in May 2024, and retained it in the rematch and again vs Dubois in July 2025.
Undisputed heavyweight champion
The great news is we DO have an undisputed heavyweight champion once again – and his name is Oleksandr Usyk. The Ukrainian claimed all of the marbles for the second time in 14 months with that brilliant victory over Dubois at Wembley.
Before Usyk became undisputed by beating Fury in May 2024, boxing had waiting 25 years for an undisputed heavyweight king – all the way back to the great Lennox Lewis in November 1999.
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